Anton K. Hawkins, 26, of Manhattan Street in Schenectady pleaded guilty March 7 to second-degree vehicular assault, a felony, in relation to a November 2012 crash that ejected and seriously injured a passenger. The speedometer of the car the defendant was driving at the time of the crash shows the car was traveling at around 130 mph.
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BALLSTON SPA -- The drunk man who crashed his Toyota Camry while driving around 130 mph on the Northway Nov. 24, 2012, was sentenced to prison time Thursday.

Anton K. Hawkins, 26, of Manhattan Street in Schenectady pleaded guilty March 7 to second-degree vehicular assault, a felony, because one of the passengers in his car was ejected and seriously injured.

The car spun out of control in the southbound lanes of the Northway in Halfmoon. The vehicle came to rest on its roof in the northbound lanes. One passenger was thrown from the vehicle and landed on the far shoulder of the northbound lane and was seriously injured.

Hawkins' other two passengers were also injured, but not seriously.

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Police used GPS technology in Hawkins' cellphone and a video shot by one of the passengers showed the speedometer measuring more than 130 mph only seconds before the crash.

"The cell video of the car careening down the Northway going 130 mph with music blasting on the stereo is chilling," Saratoga County District Attorney James A. Murphy III said, adding that it's "a miracle that he didn't kill someone."

Hawkins was sentenced to 1-1/2 to three years in state prison and three years with an ignition interlock device, which "will help to stop him from driving drunk in the future," Murphy said.